Education on the Horizon The education of our students is quickly evolving with the advent of the latest AI tools. So, what may be the essence of education for our future? Since the progress and well-being of our world depends so heavily on the education of our children, it is imperative that we take a […]
Read More“The Portfolio Project” What is a portfolio? Oak Hill Academy is excited to offer the opportunity for the eighth-grade class to create an online digital portfolio using my.bulbapp.com. The portfolio is a collection of the student’s academic and personal achievements. It will include projects, essays, personal reflections, descriptions of activities, pictures, and videos. Students can […]
Read More“We’re Back” The last four weeks have proven to be successful in getting our students back in the learning mode, either live in school or remotely using our Swivl/Zoom technology. The great news is that our teachers report that the possible learning loss of Oak Hill Academy student’s during this pandemic time has been minimal […]
Read MoreIn honor of Earth Day, after reading many books on the topic, each 2nd grader chose a problem they were passionate about. They created a superhero to help save the day! They wrote about what they would do to help the earth as this superhero. They then created comic strips about an adventure they had […]
Read MoreIf you give a child the chance to inquire, explore, and collaborate, amazing things happen in the classroom. The fourth grade has spent an hour each week doing just that. Our first Investigation project was “Where do big ideas come from?”. First, we inquired about our everyday lives looking for problems that would lead us […]
Read MoreAt the beginning of the school year, the sixth graders wrote their reading autobiographies, chronicling their reading lives from as far back as they could remember to current time. They included favorite stories that Mom and Dad read to them during their toddler years, the first chapter book they read on their own…as well as […]
Read MoreMrs. Tirella’s seventh grade Literature classes did an investigative study of William Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre. Using a Station Rotation model with Blended Learning on the computer, our class researched ten facts about Shakespeare’s life and ten facts about the Globe. They also became “groundlings for a day” and read a selection about visiting […]
Read MoreWorld Read Aloud Day was founded in 2010 as an opportunity for people all around the globe to celebrate the joy of reading aloud and advocate for literacy as a fundamental human right that belongs to everyone. This year, grades 1-4 celebrated this event together on Wednesday, February 5. Students met in the Commons and […]
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